Delivery methods!

[NYlakesider]

No clue to what is going on with the delivery services, but funny mushrooms might be ingested by drivers.

My wife ordered some items through Amazon. She got conformation that for some reason she would get 3 deliveries. That proved out to be correct.

I was riding my ATV to go down to the beach a few days later and halfway there I see what looks like a 15'' X6'' X6'''' piece of wood sticking out of the ground. Yep it was our first delivery. No clue why it was there halfway to my house. Next day my wife gets a notice a parcel has been delivered, went looking and there it was balanced on my mailbox. Next day another package and it was in a large plastic bag inside the mail box.

We get lots delivered and up till now other than the day of a nasty snow storm they come all the way up the hill to the house. I maintain the driveway and keep it in good repair! Told her to call company but she said give them another chance!

I have been seeing more items along the road by mailboxes, is this going to be the new method? In my case my mail box is not seeable from my close to 1/4 mile away house, or any neighbors. So far our area has been safe from porch pirates, but a box right at the edge of a roadway is a open invitation.

My thought on this is the drivers are going for speed so they get done earlier and the hell with the customers, or is it cost cutting by the companies themselvs? What ever the answer you can note my wife and I as not impressed!

 

[65-2x2]

Our drivers are a little better than that. They get out of the vehicle and put my packages behind the privacy fence.

 

[grover99]

When I first moved to my current address the UPS driver I had was very good. Always about the same time of day and he would bring my stuff to the door and knock. After a year or two I would start seeing less and less of him. From then it was a crap shoot as to what time my delivery would show up and where it would be left. As I have 6 doors to the outside here I often had to
check each one to find my stuff. My old driver is still working for UPS and sometimes he will be the driver but not often. Dealing with deliveries is just one of the bumps in the road of life.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Have posted that the Amazon Driver threw my new Coffee Pot into my neighbors backyard.
Most of the time I get delivered at my front door without trauma or drama.

 

[mckenney99]

My drivers are great, whether Amazon, UPS, USPS or Fedex once the items FINALLY make it to the local terminal and onto the truck. I usually meet them at the front door and make it a point to say Thank You and in the current hot/humid conditions I always offer cold water, pop or Gatorade.
Watching one item that made it from France in 2 days and now has been sitting in Elk Grove Il since 8/2. Vendor won't initiate a trace since the projected delivery date was 8/18.

 

[Onomea]

Whenever I get an Amazon delivery, and I get a lot of Amazon deliveries, I get a request to rate the delivery service.

I also think when ordering you can leave special instructions/requests for the driver.

On the whole, I've had no issues with Amazon deliveries. But I also, live in a suburban neighborhood with houses lining the street on both sides, not out in the country like you do.

 

[Chuck24]

My route was in a rural area , most houses a good ways from the road. I always went up to the house, but to be honest, it was mostly to play with the dogs

 

[old bear]

I must be lucky. With one exception I've had good luck with my delivers and drivers.

 

[LVSteve]

It's the companies. Between the drive by the metrics people for higher productivity, and the lawyers twitchiness about their vehicles on private roads, this is what you get.

 

[olfart]

What chaps me is when I go down the 700' driveway and open the gate, leave it open all day awaiting the arrival of my package, and then at 8:30 PM I get an email saying "Unable to deliver, no one at home". Then I check my gate camera, and it shows the truck speeding by and not stopping.

 

[venomballistics]

can't say as any of our delivery people were ever so lackadaisical as that. A few will leave it in the driveway by the garage, but most drop on the porch. Some even try to place the packages so they are hard to see from the street.

 

[LVSteve]

What chaps me is when I go down the 700' driveway and open the gate, leave it open all day awaiting the arrival of my package, and then at 8:30 PM I get an email saying "Unable to deliver, no one at home". Then I check my gate camera, and it shows the truck speeding by and not stopping.

That frosts my chops. These delivery people not only tell lies, they tell dumb lies.

 

[Onomea]

Reminds me of the time the postman claimed I had not been home for a registered letter when I was home waiting for it.

My doorbell camera recorded him first writing the notice that I was not home, then sticking it on the door, then knocking twice, softly on the door frame (not the door), and then immediately leaving..

 

[Rustyt1953]

Over the decades I have received a container ship of parcels (both business and home) and have yet to have a problem that wasn't rectified to my satisfaction.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Pretty good drivers here. Amazon tends to leave packages on the bench on my front porch, and that's okay with me. One day last week it was raining, and the UPS guy delivered a small parcel that he had placed inside a plastic bag. He placed it (as he usually does) right at the front door. As he was leaving he glanced at the amazon package sitting on the bench, turned around, picked it up, and placed it next to his on the front door mat. I consider that to be above and beyond service.

I watched it on my phone while at work.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If has taken me 26 months to train them but most of my route drivers know where to leave our parcels.

 

[bullmack]

I had two FedEx deliveries that were left at the wrong place 1/2 mile away. This is a rural location and was over a 7 day period. I never rate the service but I did for the 2nd one and within a day the local FedEx had reached out to say thank you and they would be correcting the problem. Didn't happen again.

 

[taz666]

I'm thinking that these days anybody with a car can deliver packages ... and Amazon just might be encouraging this method of delivery. Probably why your packages aren't delivered the same way twice.
Anybody received the email with photo of the delivered package in front of your house yet? I have and not sure if it's something I like.

 

[65-2x2]

That frosts my chops. These delivery people not only tell lies, they tell dumb lies.

I have had the opposite problem. They claim to left the package at the front door, but they couldn't get through the locked gate. Overall, I can't complain about the final step of the journey, it is all of the drama that happens to my packages before they hit the final delivery truck.

 

[grover99]

I'm thinking that these days anybody with a car can deliver packages ... and Amazon just might be encouraging this method of delivery. Probably why your packages aren't delivered the same way twice.
Anybody received the email with photo of the delivered package in front of your house yet? I have and not sure if it's something I like.

Sometimes Wal-Mart will deliver something to my house and they always sent me a photo of the box. They are the only ones that do that.

 

[Krogen]

Delivery people are just being human. Sometimes that means they make mistakes. Sometimes it means they're lazy. All in all, I've had good luck with a smattering of both characteristics along the way.

One driver left 5 flats of shotshells in front of the garage door (in the rain) because they were presumably too heavy to get to the front porch.

Another driver pulled into the driveway and hung out for a while. He paused so long I went out to see what was up. He couldn't find my package in the truck. Then an "aha moment" occurred. He said he misdelivered it and went back to get it. He shortly returned with it and apologized.

Finally, one time I noticed the mail carrier stop at the mailbox, so I wandered out the get the mail. I found a certified mail, "nobody home" notice in the box. The carrier didn't even try to deliver it. I got in my truck and tracked her down. "You want me to take off work next week to go get the dang letter????" She just said "I have a lot of mail to deliver." THAT set me off and I said give me the **** letter. Which with my ID, she did. She did have a rather sheepish look at that point.

Like I said, people make mistakes and can be lazy. These three events are about all I can complain about in a multitude of deliveries. Life is good!

 

[grover99]

Being retired I have lots of time to watch the going on in my neighborhood {Ok I am just nosey}. One day last December the UPS truck pulled up to my neighbor cross the street and I sat and watched the UPS guy unload 84 packages in his yard and porch. I counted each one as he pulled them from the truck. Then the home owner sorted them and loaded a bunch of them in his truck and left, Couple of hours he was back and got the rest and took off with them. He is Latino and is a great neighbor having been there for years. I think he was receiving packages for some of his countrymen who would prefer that their address not be known.

 

[NYlakesider]

I'm thinking that these days anybody with a car can deliver packages ... and Amazon just might be encouraging this method of delivery. Probably why your packages aren't delivered the same way twice.
Anybody received the email with photo of the delivered package in front of your house yet? I have and not sure if it's something I like.

A few years ago my wife got one of those. It was a handgun coming back from a manufacture after repair. It clearly stated "Adult Signature Required''! She was quite POed and called the company and got this BS reason, because of Covid it limited exposure . The company said this was acceptable.
I shudder to think living here in NY state of going to the Sheriffs and making a report of a missing legal handgun. We still would be filling out papers!

 

[Doug M.]

Most of our deliveries go to the PO. We use the street address for the PO with our box # because we don't get mail at the house and packages cannot be safely left.

 

[CajunBass]

About the only gripe I've got is they don't knock on the door, just drop and go. On the other hand, no one has ever bothered a delivery and some have set out overnight.

As an aside, I ordered a couple of things from Amazon yesterday morning. They got here yesterday afternoon.

 

[Yendor 1]

If you have a complaint about one of your delivery service companies, venting on a gun forum is ok with me as long as you’re taking action to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

At UPS, everything is now AI. UPS drivers used to line up their own route, and run it in the most efficient manner.
No more.
Now UPS management, and the computer program they use determines how a route gets delivered. Now, almost any brain dead idiot that doesn’t even know how to drive a manual transmission can chuck bundles.
*Please note: I did NOT just call all UPS drivers idiots. I said the SYSTEM is set up so that any idiot can deliver. Corporate UPS has decided that they, from Atlanta, know better than the local drivers, how to run the route that a driver has been on for years.

To the guy who has time to watch his gate camera, and sees a delivery vehicle “speeding” past his gate, please explain to me how you know for certain that particular vehicle contains your package. Clairvoiyance? X-ray vision? Jedi mind power? Did you ever stop to think there’s more than one delivery driver, and there’s a possibility that you’re not the center of the universe?

I can only speak for the company for which I’ve worked for 43 years, UPS. UPS, just like S&W is NOT the company it was 30 years ago. Just like the new Colt and S&W revolvers, at first glance, things look the same. But they most certainly are not.

 

[jimmyj]

I have often considered recommending that delivery drivers use a skeet throwing machine.
In this method the driver could stay in their vehicle and sight the machine at the customer's front door and activate. Each delivery address would only need the correct windage and elevation setting.